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DBMS > Altibase vs. Firebird vs. OpenTSDB vs. Qdrant

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Firebird vs. OpenTSDB vs. Qdrant

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score1.16
Rank#175  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websitealtibase.comwww.firebirdsql.orgopentsdb.netgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualswww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlqdrant.tech/­documentation
DeveloperAltibaseFirebird Foundationcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsQdrant
Initial release19992000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20112021
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20235.0.0, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++JavaRust
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsNumbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yesnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP API
Telnet API
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsPSQLno
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infobased on HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseCollection-level replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseEventual Consistency, tunable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnoKey-based authentication

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